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Orphics
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"Imagine a postmodern Pindar with a liberal arts education and good command of Polish; think of an Orpheus who starts out as a horny kid from the American suburbs, hits the road like Kerouac, learns a few things along the way, but still looks back-wacked! Kress has come up with some playful and surprisingly haunting sonnets that glance at the old stories but sing their own new, not too sweet songs."-Julia Kasdorf
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LittératureSubtopic
PoésieCONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Orpheus on and off the Road
Orpheus Hops a Freight
Orpheus Renames the Constellations
Don't Look Back
Practice
Impenetrable Grotto
Orpheus Considers Celibacy
Early Education
Early Education (2)
Orpheus at the Ashland Coal Mine
An Orphic Version of the Pastoral
Orpheus Accompanies a Caucus of the Women's Strike for Peace to the Union Hall
Orpheus on The Five Incomplete Phenomena or the Unripe Fruits
Orpheus in Therapy
Orphics
After Treny 14 (On the Death of His Daughter, Urszula)
Orpheus Practices Pindarics
Orpheus Gets an Earful from the Maenads
The Descent
Orpheus to His Polish Translator Jan Kochanowski in 1580
The Singing Oracle of Orpheus
Notes
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Journal; Orphics: The Descent; Snakeskin (On-line journal, UK); Orpheus on and off the Road, Orpheus Hops a Freight, Orpheus Renames the Constellations, Don't Look Back; Cortland Review (Online journal); Impenetrable Grotto; Artful Dodge; After Treny 14 (On the Death of His Daughter, Urszula)
Orpheus on and off the Road was awarded the 2002 William Stafford Poetry Prize from Rosebud.
Orpheus Gets an Earful was part of a collaborative project with printmaker Mania Dajnak and exhibited at the Southern Graphics Council Conference in New Orleans, March 2002.
Much of the work in this book was made possible by Individual Artist Grants from the Ohio Arts Council.
ORPHEUS ON AND OFF THE ROAD
A blinding locust storm in southern Illinois,
the kids who pick me up stole this Ford,
drinking and joyriding, reveling toward
the coast. And when they stop to let me pry
the black gook off the wipers, they screech away,
hysterical, my rucksack in their trunk.
I have surrendered to the road and pray
as I hitch, buffeted by each passing truck,
it will provide. And so it does. Two more rides,
Iowa cornfield to sleep, dancing stalks
and whispers—to be found you must be lost.
Falling stars throughout the night, roads
almost abandoned—a Mustang of...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Orpheus on and off the Road
- Orpheus Hops a Freight
- Orpheus Renames the Constellations
- Don't Look Back
- Practice
- Impenetrable Grotto
- Orpheus Considers Celibacy
- Early Education
- Early Education (2)
- Orpheus at the Ashland Coal Mine
- An Orphic Version of the Pastoral
- Orpheus Accompanies a Caucus of the Women's Strike for Peace to the Union Hall
- Orpheus on The Five Incomplete Phenomena or the Unripe Fruits
- Orpheus in Therapy
- Orphics
- After Treny 14 (On the Death of His Daughter, Urszula)
- Orpheus Practices Pindarics
- Orpheus Gets an Earful from the Maenads
- The Descent
- Orpheus to His Polish Translator Jan Kochanowski in 1580
- The Singing Oracle of Orpheus
- Notes